The Sheriffs Are Coming

The Sheriffs Are Coming
The Sheriffs Are Coming title cards for Series 1 & 2
Genre	Factual
Narrated by	Paul Sangam (Series 1) James Barriscale (Series 2) David Reed (Series 3-)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	55 (excluding compilations)
Production
Location(s)	United Kingdom
Running time	45 minutes (morning episodes) 60 minutes (evening episodes)
Production company(s)	Screenchannel Television
Release
Original network	BBC One, BBC One HD, BBC Two (repeats)
Picture format	16:9
Original release	19 March 2012 – Present
External links
Website

The Sheriffs Are Coming is a British fly on the wall documentary series following High Court enforcement officers (known as Sheriffs Officers until April 2004), which started off as a one-off 10-minute feature on the BBC One show Inside Out South West in 2011.

The programme follows the work of High Court enforcement officers (HCEOs) and features enforcement agents and authorised HCEOs from The Sheriffs Office in Croydon.

The series is shown on BBC One and began on 19 March 2012 with a series of ten episodes. It shows the process and efforts of the officers in obtaining money from companies, employers and tradespeople who owe money to members of the general public.

On 5 February 2014, The Sheriffs Are Coming was announced as the winner of the Best Daytime Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2014.

The second series of 15 episodes aired every weekday morning on BBC One at 11am from 14 January to 1 February 2013 and was repeated on BBC Two at 7am the following morning.

In Summer 2013, a series of four 60 minute compilation episodes was broadcast on BBC One in a peak time evening slot of 7-8 pm. The four episodes were shown on Monday 22 July, Wednesday 24 July, Monday 29 July and Wednesday 31 July 2013 and contained highlights from the first and second series.

Series 3, consisting of ten episodes, began on Monday 13 January 2014 and was broadcast on BBC One every weekday morning at 11am and again on BBC Two the following morning at 7am. BBC One also broadcast a four-part primetime compilation series in August 2014.

Series 4, consisting of five episodes aired from Monday 16 to Friday 20 March 2015 on BBC One, followed by repeats of earlier cases until Friday 17 April 2015. A "best of" primetime series aired on Wednesday evenings at 19:00 from 22 July 2015 for three weeks.

Series 5, consisting of 10 episodes, began on 11 April 2016 and concluded on 24 April 2016. Episodes were first shown at 11am on BBC One and repeated the following weekday at 6:45am on BBC Two. Now being repeated from 17 October to 28 October 2016 on BBC 1

On 4 January 2017, BBC One started a 6 part prime time series of 60-minute episodes compiled from series 5. The programme is broadcast from 20:00 to 21:00 on BBC One.

Series 6, comprising 10 new 45-minute episodes, starts on Monday 3 April 2017 on BBC One at 11 am. It is repeated on BBC Two at 6.30 am from Tuesday 4 April.